Monday, 2 April 2018

homework and exercises - Why is the Dirac mass term Hermitian if Grassmann-valued fields anticommute?


Let's have Dirac mass term in lagrangian: $$ L_{M} = \bar{\Psi}\Psi $$ Lagrangian must be real-valued, i.e., its Hermitian conjugation doesn't change it. But due to Grassmann nature of spinor fields, $[\psi_{a}^{*}, \psi_{b}]_{+} = 0$, $$ L_{M}^{\dagger} = -\bar{\Psi}\Psi $$ Where have I make a mistake?




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